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> YC literally put a higher value on maintaining old forum threads than reducing risk former users faced being detained, beaten or killed by religious or politi
by slibhb 4y ago
> YC literally put a higher value on maintaining old forum threads than reducing risk former users faced being detained, beaten or killed by religious or political organizations.
I agree the website should have this feature but the "if you don't implement this feature you're potentially murdering future people" stuff is not a good argument.
- asdff 4y agoIts a real concern in this case though. Read the news these days on what certain governments do to their activists based on their social media postings.
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoWhy not? To me, the possibility of my users facing serious physical harm would be a very compelling concern. If I worked on something of YC’s scale I’d take those kinds of ethical considerations very, very seriously.
- anigbrowl 4y agoPossibilities are imponderable; anything is possible. Probabilities are something you can weigh, and while I see the point you're making I think the probability of anyone incurring serious legal/political exposure via HN is actually quite low. It's easy to obscure your identity if you're so inclined, and awhile old comments can't be deleted, YC equally has no way to prevent them being scraped and archived.